Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawrence Resner, who left a labor reporting job on the New York Times to be Crum's right-hand man; Managing Editor Jay Odell, a Nieman Fellow and former telegraph editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. PM Editor John P. Lewis, who had kept the staff together during eight uncertain weeks, was out on the street...
...couple's future was highly uncertain. In the view of her church, Anne had fallen into "grave sin." Gossip around Michael's peripatetic court had it that his assets were only $30,000, two cars and one jeep.* "Michael wants to buy a farm in the States and earn his living," a member of his entourage said. "Do you think he has enough...
...Chips Are Down. Such Frenchmen feared that, in the end, it came down to trusting in the still remote and uncertain U.S. power, and events like Congressman John Taber's hatchet work on ERP (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) did nothing to increase that trust. Premier Schuman's government might be gambling its existence (see FOREIGN NEWS) when the French Assembly debates the six-power recommendations soon...
Less than 15 percent of students in all classes definitely stated that they had no intention of doing advanced study, but 53 percent of the sophomores, 57 percent of the juniors and 56 percent of the seniors planned to go to graduate school. Thirty percent listed themselves as "uncertain...
Defense or Liberation? If war came, would the U.S. fight in Western Europe? The Europeans are uncertain about that. Harry Truman's St. Patrick's Day speech to Congress, which implied a promise of military help, was not enough for them. Belgium's Premier Paul-Henri Spaak appeared shortly in Washington and asked for a definite commitment. It was not forthcoming. Pundit Walter Lippmann and others noted that the U.S. could hardly help going to war if Russia attacked Western Europe, since U.S. troops east of the Rhine would have to be pushed aside first. But Europeans...